Service Description: The MPA Inventory is a comprehensive catalog that provides detailed information for existing marine protected areas in the United States. The inventory provides geospatial boundary information (in polygon format) and classification attributes that seek to define the conservation objectives, protection level, governance and related management criteria for all sites in the database. The comprehensive inventory of federal, state, and territorial MPA sites provides governments and stakeholders with access to information to make better decisions about the current and future use of place-based conservation.
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Description: To assess the environmental conditions of marine protected areas (MPAs), experts developed an Ecological Assessment Scorecard methodology, which distills large amounts of complex technical and traditional/local ecological knowledge about MPA conditions.
These scorecards are an easy yet powerful tool for MPA managers to share evidence-based ecological information about water, habitat and living resources. The first 10 MPA ecological scorecard sites are located in the Bering Sea to Baja California Region (B2B) region. Additional sites are being added by the countries as time and funding permits.
The scorecard for each of the MPAs is based on standard questions about three key themes: water, habitat and living resources, to describe environmental health. Conditions for each ecosystem element addressed by the questions were defined on a five-point scale, ranging from superior (best it could be) to critical (worst it could be). Trends in conditions were likewise defined in five categories ranging from rapidly improving to rapidly diminishing (likely to reach a different state in five years) and stable (unlikely to change beyond normal variation). Initially 14 questions were used and this was revised to 12 after the first 10 MPAs were scored.
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Commission for Environmental Cooperation (CEC). 2008. “North American Marine Protected Areas Ecological Scorecard Sites”. NOAA's Marine Protected Areas Center. Ed. 1.0, Vector digital data [1:10,000,000].
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